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Can Elite Allegations of Election Fraud Demobilize Supporters?
Can allegations of electoral fraud and misconduct undermine participation in democratic politics? If so, how large and long lasting are these turnout...
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Linking Primary Voter Mindsets to General Election Enthusiasm
For decades scholars and pundits alike have been interested in questions about divisive presidential primaries. However, most analyses examine how...
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Election cycles and corruption perception in Africa
This paper empirically examines whether Africa’s low corruption agenda can be achieved amid election cycles. We employ country-level data from 36...
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Building a cross-national research dialogue on elections and election administration between the USA and France
The book, Accessible Elections: How the States Can Help Americans Vote (2020) from the Oxford University Press by Michael J. Ritter and Caroline J....
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Correction to: The best Condorcet-compatible election method: Ranked Pairs
An error is corrected in the paper by Charles T. Munger, Jr., The best Condorcet-compatible election method: Ranked Pairs , Const Polit Econ (2022).
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Deeds, not words? Speech and re-election of Japan’s local legislators
This study is an empirical inquiry into the re-election of elected assembly members and investigates whether incumbents' general participation in...
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Covid-19 and the 2020 presidential election
Whether deserved on not, US Presidents often receive the blame or the credit for the nature of the economy and direction of the country. Therefore,...
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Expressive Responding and Belief in 2020 Election Fraud
Do surveys measure sincere belief in Donald Trump’s “big lie” that fraud decided the 2020 election? We apply a comprehensive approach to detecting...
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The best Condorcet-compatible election method: Ranked Pairs
Condorcet-compatible election methods are examined and compared. The Ranked Pairs method proves significantly better than Beatpath; that both are...
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‘The first, but not the last’: women’s descriptive and substantive representation in the 2021 Scottish Parliament election
The 2021 Scottish Parliament election delivered the most diverse range of MSPs in Holyrood’s history, including a record number of women. We situate...
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Support for Strategic Voting Campaigns: Evidence from a Survey Experiment During the German General Election of 2021
Although strategic voting is common in the first tier of the German electoral system, large-scale campaigns designed to foster strategic voting have...
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Not as expected: the role of performance expectations in voter responses to election pledge fulfilment
Not only the content, but also the context of election pledges should affect how voters respond to broken and fulfilled pledges. Borrowing from other...
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The 2021 German Federal Election
The German Federal Election of 2021 was one of the most open and competitive in the post-war era. This book provides a systematic analysis of its...
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Introduction: Japan’s Coronavirus Election
This chapter provides an introductory overview of Japan’s 2021 House of Representatives general election and gives brief summaries of the contents of...
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Personal Networks and Grassroots Election Participation in China: Findings from the Chinese General Social Survey
Grassroots elections of rural village heads and urban community directors are an important public arena for social-political participation of Chinese...
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Lessons Learned from the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election Hindsight is 2020
In this book, leading and emerging election scholars document the steps that state and local election officials took to augment their elections...
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Introduction: The 2021 Canadian Federal Election
The 2021 Canadian election was a unique experience as a campaign delivered under the constraints of a global pandemic. This chapter provides an...
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Citizenship and Election in Africa
Citizenship greatly assists each individual for the active participation of people in government processes and decision-making. Citizenship has been...
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Voting Behaviour in the 2021 Election
Using data from the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) as well as official statistics, this chapter sheds light on decision-making processes,...
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Predicting in an (increasingly) unpredictable system? Forty years of election forecasting in France
In the last 40 years or so, scholars have proposed a vast array of models and approaches to predict election outcomes in a variety of democracies....